False Impressions: How Digital Editing is Altering Public Discourse

DOI: 10.5176/2301-3729_JMComm12.93

Authors: Bill Loving, Brady Teufel

Abstract:The purpose of this paper is to explore how digital editing technology is facilitating public misrepresentation – specifically, how easily it is perpetrated, how widespread it has become, how damaging it is to public discourse and finally, what remedies there are to curb it.